Not necessarily the 8800GT card will still have to be shipped from china/usa so they will have a head start in that dept.
Nvidia manufacture their cards in the US? Sounds expensive.
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Nvidia manufacture their cards in the US? Sounds expensive.
Ordered Jan 18th
Ship March 15th
WHAT?
i ordered yesterday and it says ship march 3rd.. what the??
hope you get it before they refresh the Mac Pro.
Ordered Jan 18th
Ship March 15th
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WHAT!?????
Like a user said above anyway, all this dates are just estimates pulled out of the air, when they are ready to ship they will all go at once.
WHAT?
i ordered yesterday and it says ship march 3rd.. what the??
hope you get it before they refresh the Mac Pro.
That's only because when you ordered yours the system was set to 3-5 weeks... then Apple changed it to 2-3 weeks. Remember, when you buy your Mac Pro, the website automatically gives you the latest date. So if it says 2-3 weeks, the system will just throw at you the exact 3 week date. The system is just doing that to follow its own programming. So back when you ordered your Mac Pro, the dates were still 3-5 weeks, so it gave you the 5 week date. It just did what it was supposed to.
I'm nearly certain Apple will be shipping everyone's mac by the end of next week.
Not with the dollars value at the mo
I meant for NVIDIA. Much cheaper for them to manufacture abroad surely? China etc.
I would love to know how you order your box 14 days after I do and have a 2/12 ship date. The only change I made to the system was vid card. Oh well.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Honestly though, you got to stop posting your theories as facts. You have yet to present anything concrete to prove that Apple is going to ship a day sooner than the ship date. Just because you say it frequently doesn't mean it's true. No offense. I hope to God they do ship early. But that's just wishful thinking.
$350 for the card!?!?
Now I'm pissed at myself for not going with the ATI, getting the MP now and adding the Nvidia later...
I'm a 'Ships Feb 13' too. Guess I better get around to ordering the ram!
I also agree with that. All you do is post your theories as if they are 100% truth. May I remind you of the 10.5.2 debacle and your tons of threads about the so-called ship date.
Meh.
Listen, I just want my Mac like everyone else, but there is a fact to base that the ship dates are just 3 week calculations from the time of purchase and are arbitrary. Look at these purchase/ship dates from two users in this very thread:
When the Apple Store was programmed to 3-5 weeks:
Ordered Jan 18th
Ship March 15th
When the Apple Store was programmed to 2-3 weeks:
WHAT?
i ordered yesterday and it says ship march 3rd.. what the??
hope you get it before they refresh the Mac Pro.
And I ordered not too long ago and have a mid/late February delivery date.
I just can't honestly believe that the Mac Pro i ordered just a few days ago will arrive a month sooner than the individual who oredered Jan 18th. If I were Apple, I would program my order site the same way. Just plug in the 2-3 week estimation and have the system calculate the exact 3 week date from the date of purchase. Just hand them a safe date. Its only obvious (not a theory) that the Apple site is currently just giving a 3 week lead time from the date of purchase. If you order today (before 4pm), it'll give you a ship date of Feb 26th (3 weeks from today). That is a fact. 100%.
My theory is simply this: Apple will not ship all over the place on these shipping dates, especially giving me a system before the guy who ordered one in mid january. It's just not fair. Sure, they'd be honoring their ship date, but I'd like to believe Apple has values here. Yes, still a theory, but my guess (call it crazy) is that Apple is going to ship these once they're ready and ship them all at once (or around a week time frame) and beat these crazy ship dates. I'm not saying its fact, just a really good guess there, man. I'm just trying to help simmer the frustration of folks who think they have to wait till mid march for ordering mid January when I ordered my machine just the other day and getting it in the same month of February.
Ordered: Jan 8th
Ship date: Feb 13th
Arrive date: Feb 19th
I've now waited 4 weeks, and it's getting tiresome. I've aged 7 months in dog years since placing the order!
I really hope that we beat the ship date, not slip past it...
Ship date: Feb 13th
Arrive date: Feb 19th
I've now waited 4 weeks, and it's getting tiresome. I've aged 7 months in dog years since placing the order!
I really hope that we beat the ship date, not slip past it...